VICE: Police Unions Want You to Think Derek Chauvin Is the Only Bad Cop
FACTS: Many of the police unions calling Chauvin’s conviction justice represent police departments that regularly kill civilians and aggressively block even minimal reforms.
NEW YORK: Despite regularly providing cover for police officers who commit murders, police unions appeared eager to condemn former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin after his conviction for George Floyd’s murder.
“As we have said from the beginning, what Derek Chauvin did that day was not policing. It was murder,” the Police Benevolent Association (PBA), the NYPD’s rank-and-file police union, said on Wednesday.
“The jury has spoken and he will face consequences for his actions. Now it’s time for an honest discussion of policing and public safety that begins with the real challenges we face on our streets”….
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THANKS OBAMA: Barack has a message for Black Americans: “Keep marching, keep speaking up, keep voting”
THE HILL: Former President Obama noted that those who benefit from the status quo are counting on “cynicism”
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GOD BLESS “MERICA” >>> REDDIT: Don’t Steal the Liquid from my Knees
A doctor on Reddit describes what happened when he diagnosed a Covid denier with Covid:
“I’m an attending physician at our Triage Unit. On a Friday, an older gentleman (60 + years) came in with his entire family (wife, sister, 2 nephews and 3 children), none of them with a face-mask. All had mild COVID symptoms except him, he was saturating 80% with evident shortness of breath. We insisted in doing PCR and a chest CAT-scan looking for COVID but he and his wife refused saying that COVID wasn’t real and it was just a bacterial infection. The more we talked with him the more agitated he got to the point that his face was red. We suggested hospitalizing him to stabilize him and start treatment, but they accused us of exaggerating his symptoms and that we only wanted to hospitalize him so we could steal the liquid in his knees (a stupid rumor that was going around when this whole thing started).”
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STRANGE NEWS: The new york posts reports that this guy has 34 girlfriends while you sit at home alone staring at social media in your pajama pants, unwashed t-shirt, two dogs and three cats…
https://nypost.com/2021/04/23/man-with-35-girlfriends-busted-for-fraud-over-birthday-gifts/
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CNN: Pledging to go Green Boosts Corporate Brands, Stocks
Net zero pledges have become all the rage in Corporate America. Big banks, steel companies and even (mostly European) oil companies are pledging to wipe out their carbon emissions over time.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/22/investing/net-zero-pledge-companies-stocks/index.html
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SICK NEWS: “Nicole Marie Poole Franklin had actually been involved in three separate racist incidents in December 2019”
CNN: An Iowa woman who told police in 2019 that she ran over a girl because she “was a Mexican” pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal hate crime charges
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/22/us/iowa-woman-guilty-plea-hate-crime-trnd/index.html
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FLORIDA: Turtle Crashes Through Windshield, Hits Passenger in Head
A 71-year-old woman riding with her daughter on Florida’s Interstate 95 suffered a gashed forehead when a turtle smashed through the windshield of their car. The turtlejust had a few scratches on its shell and was released back into the woods
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SCARY NEWS: Oxygen supplies given armed escort in India as supplies run out, threatening death to Covid-19 patients
ALJAZEERA >>> INDIA COVID CRISES: Oxygen gets armed escort as supplies run low
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CNN: Russia Orders Troops Back to Base After Massive Buildup
Russia appeared to be pulling back from a confrontation with the West on Friday as state media reported that troops were returning to their bases after taking part in exercises near the border with Ukraine and in Crimea.
A buildup of Russian troops along the border in recent weeks had reignited tensions in eastern Ukraine, where government forces have battled Russian-backed separatists demanding independence from Kiev since 2014.
But on Thursday Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu suddenly declared that the troops had completed their drills in the south of the country near Ukraine and Crimea, and would return to their permanent bases by May 1. “I believe that the objectives of the snap drill have been fully achieved.
The troops have demonstrated the ability to provide a reliable defense of the country,” Shoigu said at a meeting in Crimea, which Russia annexed from Kiev in 2014.
“At present, military units and formations are marching to railway stations, airfields, loading onto landing ships, railway platforms and military transport aircraft,” Tass reported on Friday, citing the Ministry of Defense….
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/22/europe/russia-military-ukraine-border-exercises-intl/index.html
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ALJAZEERA: CEO of Turkish crypto exchange flees country as platform shuts down, blocking almost four hundred thousand users from accessing their so-called secure assets
CRYPTO-SCAM: Turkish authorities opened a probe following allegations that hundreds of millions of dollars were stolen….
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MARSHALL PROJECT: Coronavirus Infection and Fatality Rates in Prisons
It’s worth pointing out that the majority of prison inmates are not 65 or older and that prisons can lock down the entire population if they feel a need.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/05/01/a-state-by-state-look-at-coronavirus-in-prisons
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CREEPY MEDIA NEWS: Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Might Be Insane And Not Just A Racist Son Of A Biatch
MEDIAITE: Carlson Says Democrats Are Going To Allow Children to Stab Each Other In Response To Ma’Khia Bryant Shooting…
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YONKERS MAN: A Bumble user helped the FBI identify an accused Capitol rioter after he slid into her DMs to brag about the insurrection
BUSTED BY A DATING APP: Robert Chapman of Yonkers, New York, was charged with two counts of trespassing, and two counts of violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol Grounds, according to a federal affidavit.
YAHOO NEWS >>> BUSINESS INSIDER:The FBI first became aware of Chapman on January 13, after a Bumble user tipped it off with a screenshot of an exchange she had with him in which he identified himself as having been a part of the riot.
In it, he says, “I did storm the Capitol” and “I made it all the way to Statuary Hall,” a room used by Congress to host dignitaries.
Chapman went on to say that he’d spoken with reporters at both The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal…
https://news.yahoo.com/bumble-user-helped-fbi-identify-092507620.html
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FLORIDA MAN: Sean Hannity purchased a $5 million home right next to Mar-A-Lago
SALON: Hannity’s purchase of the three-bedroom, five-bedroom beachfront condo in swanky Palm Beach, which is colloquially known as “Billionaire’s Row,”
Hannity joins a number of conservative firebrands who have decamped south to Florida — including fellow Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Newsmax owner Chris Ruddy, former Republican presidential candidate turned “Borat 2” star Rudy Giuliani, and commentators Ann Coulter and Ben Shapiro.
The late conservative radio star Rush Limbaugh and the late Fox News CEO Roger Ailes were also residents of Palm Beach prior to their deaths.
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THE GUARDIAN: Syrian Missile Landed Near Israeli Dimona Nuclear Reactor
A CLOSE CALL: Israel has acknowledged that its air defences failed to intercept a missile fired from Syria overnight that traversed 125 miles of its highly protected airspace and landed near its secretive Dimona nuclear reactor.
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WEIRD BUT TRUE: 30 to 40 Year Old Millennials Are Moving Back Into Their Childhood Bedrooms
NEW YORK POST: By July 2020, 52 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds, or 26.6 million adults, were residing with a parent, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis — the highest number since the Great Depression…..
https://nypost.com/2021/04/22/millennials-are-living-in-childhood-rooms-in-record-numbers/
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UPI: Biden’s Budget Office Gives Formal Support for DC Statehood
President Joe Biden gave a full endorsement Tuesday of Washington, D.C.’s campaign for statehood by supporting a House proposal to make it the 51st state….
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2021/04/20/joe-biden-supports-washington-dc-statehood/8721618933337/
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YOU TOO CAN LIVE LIKE A DICK: Richard Nixon’s nine-bedroom “Western White House” where he retreated after the Watergate scandal to write his memoirs goes on the market. For only $65M
DAILY MAIL: The former California home of Richard Nixon where the president retired to write his memoirs after the Watergate scandal is back on the market after failing to sell for six years.
The property – dubbed the ‘Western White House’ after Nixon spent time there during his term in office – is back on sale with a hiked up asking price of $65 million as the state’s luxury housing market experiences a surge.
The 5.45 acre Spanish-style compound was home to the 37th president of the United States and his wife Pat for nearly two decades….
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MSNBC: A GOP Senator Likely Regrets Asking Stacy Abrams About GA Law
The Democratic-led Senate Judiciary Committee held an important hearing this week: “Jim Crow 2021: The Latest Assault on the Right to Vote.” Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) apparently thought he could trip up former state Sen. Stacey Abrams (D-Ga.) whom Republicans seemed especially eager to tangle with, by asking a question about her own state’s new voter-suppression law. “Tell me specifically,” the far-right Louisianan said, “just give me a list of the provisions that you object to”. So, she did….
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FRANCE 24: In Brazil, Young People Have Become the CV’s Prime Targets
Brazil’s intensive care doctors have seen more and more young patients arriving at their wards in recent months, with one in two under 40 years old. The new, more contagious Brazilian variant, known as P1, seems to be affecting younger people with no pre-existing comorbidities.
More than half the patients in Brazilian intensive care units in March were under 40 years old, according to the Brazilian Association of Resuscitation Physicians. The more contagious Covid-19 variant known as P1 is claiming younger victims every day, many with no prior medical issues.
Between January and March the death toll among those between 30 and 39 jumped 353 percent, according to the latest report from the Covid-19 Observatory. At the headquarters of the Fiocruz medical institute, chief pulmonologist Margareth Dalcolmo, who is coordinating the study on the new variant, says not a day goes by without seeing more alarming numbers. And one key question: Why does the Brazilian variant claim more victims among young people?
Dalcolmo and her colleagues already have some clues. “The profile of seriously ill patients has changed. First, because of the evolution of the pandemic and the lack of lockdown measures, we see more and more young people in the streets. They are the ones who have to go to work and who cannot stand the absence of a social life any longer. So they meet in bars,” she says….
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BLOOMBERG: Amy Coney Barrett’s Big Book Deal Called Bad Optics Court
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s reported $2 million book deal is drawing criticism from legal experts who say its size and timing create bad optics for a court that is already in the political crosshairs.
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MSNBC: After Chauvin’s Conviction, Right Wingers Criticize Jurors
After a year of national and international scrutiny into George Floyd’s death, many on the right have settled on a new culprit worthy of their scorn: members of a jury in Hennepin County, Minn., whom some conservatives perceive as cowards. It’s an argument predicated on the idea that the evidence was on Chauvin’s side — reality notwithstanding — and those rascally jurors put the facts aside in order to prevent social unrest.
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CNN: Pentagon Adviser Fights Commanders who Deny Extremism Exists
Pentagon extremism adviser lays out challenge facing military after two commanders deny a problem exists. One day after two four-star military commanders told Congress they did not have problems with extremists in their ranks, the top adviser on the issue to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin took a different view and stated plainly that he believes the opposite.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/21/politics/pentagon-extremism-adviser-challenge/index.html
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US CENTCOM: General Kenneth McKenzie says that after twenty years of extensive army training the Afghani military “will certainly collapse”
AP NEWS >>> GENERAL: Afghan military will collapse without some US help
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CNN: Woman Shackled by Police While in Labor Settles with NYC – The young mother of two forced to give birth handcuffed to a hospital bed
An African American woman who says her wrists and ankles were shackled by police for hours while she was in active labor at a hospital has settled with the city of New York and its police department.
The woman was arrested two days past her due date in late 2018 on a misdemeanor assault charge that was later dismissed and sealed, her attorneys told CNN. She went into labor the day of her arrest, according to a lawsuit.
She filed the suit against the city of New York and several New York Police Department officers anonymously in October, seeking damages for emotional distress, a violation of her civil rights, punitive damages, attorney fees and costs. In court Wednesday, a US district magistrate judge for the Eastern District of New York approved a $750,000 settlement for the woman and her baby….
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/21/us/new-york-pregnant-woman-shackled-by-police-settles/index.html
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THE INTERCEPT: CVS Health has been quietly bankrolling the anti-Medicare For All campaign
EVIL CORPORATION: The pharmacy and health insurance giant gave $5 million to Dark Money Group
In a year marked by a coronavirus pandemic that has killed millions, CVS Health financed a wave of political advocacy against measures to control health care costs and increase access.
The health care giant, which owns Aetna health insurance and operates thousands of pharmacies and walk-in clinics around the country, provided $5 million to the Partnership for America’s Health Care Future, or PAHCF.
The seven-figure donation from CVS is the largest known contribution to….
https://theintercept.com/2021/04/21/cvs-lobby-health-insurance-medicare-for-all/
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REUTERS: Biden to Recognize Massacre of Armenians as Genocide
U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to formally recognize the massacre of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War One as an act of genocide, sources said on Wednesday, a move likely to infuriate Turkey and further strain already frayed ties between the two NATO allies.
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TIME FOR A FACEPALM: Suddenly the NY Post is concerned that the White House Press Secretary didn’t answer a question to a reporter’s complete satisfaction
https://nypost.com/2021/04/21/psaki-cuts-off-reporter-when-pressed-on-bidens-racism-culpability/
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AP NEWS: Australia Ends China Deals on National Interest Grounds
Australian Defense Minister Peter Dutton said his government would not allow the Chinese Communist Party to use such deals with Australian states as “propaganda.” “Our problem is with the values or the virtues or the outlook of the Chinese Communist Party,” Dutton told Sydney Radio 2GB
https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-australia-business-80ff900f6cf9f3038f6348209e0eccc4
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POLITICO: Capitol Police Told to Pursue Only ‘Anti-Trump’ Protesters Jan. 6
A Capitol Police official radioed units outside of the building on the morning of Jan. 6 and told them only to scout for anti-Trump troublemakers — not pro-Trump protesters, according to Rep. Zoe Lofgren, who described what she said were details of an internal investigation conducted in the aftermath of the mob attack.
Lofgren (D-Calif.) revealed the finding while she questioned Capitol Police Inspector General Michael Bolton, who appeared before the House Administration Committee Wednesday to testify about security failures that precipitated the Jan. 6 attack. Lofgren, who chairs the panel, described the findings as she asked him whether he had read the internal investigation reports.
Lofgren said the department’s Office of Professional Responsibility was reviewing information that a radio transmission to “all outside units’ attention” that they should not be “looking for any pro-Trump in the crowd,” according to Lofgren. She added they were “only looking for any anti-Trump.”
Bolton said he had yet to review the reports of internal investigations into the conduct of about three dozen officers on Jan. 6, many of which are ongoing….
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/21/capitol-officer-investigated-antitrump-protestors-484048
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LEGAL NEWS: The Supreme Court In 9-0 Decision Reverses A $1.3B Penalty Against Scammer And payday Lender CEO Scott Tucker, Making Him The Richest Man In the US Prison System
REUTERS: Supreme Court Curbs FTC’s Power To Recoup Ill-Gotten Gains
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YAHOO NEWS: Watchdog Nixed Probe Into Conduct of Trump’s Secret Service
Despite recommendations from career staff, a federal watchdog for the Secret Service last year declined to take up probes into the agency’s handling of Black Lives Matter protests in D.C., and on the spread of COVID-19 among Secret Service members, according to the Project On Government Oversight.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/report-watchdog-blocked-inquiry-secret-145215705.html
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CUE THE CONSPIRACY THEORISTS: Now that many of us have been vaccinated, Customers will pay with a palm scan
MARK OF THE BEAST: Whole Foods will soon let customers pay for groceries with palm scan
NEW YORK POST: Whole Foods is getting into palm reading, and yes — the idea is to separate you from your money as quickly as possible.
The upscale grocer said Wednesday that its parent company Amazon’s palm-scanning technology for accepting customer payments in checkout lines will soon debut at a supermarket in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood….
https://nypost.com/2021/04/21/whole-foods-will-soon-let-customers-pay-with-palm-scan/
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ENVIRONMENTALLY AWKWARD: The CEO of the National Audubon Society resigning in disgrace after accusations he was strutting about like a peacock
POLITICO: Audubon CEO resigns after complaints of toxic workplace
David Yarnold, the CEO of environmental group the National Audubon Society, is stepping down under a “mutual agreement,” coming on the heels of an internal audit into its workplace culture that resulted….
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/20/audubon-ceo-resigns-483569
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SOME GOOD NEWS: Nathan’s Famous is bringing back unlimited 5-cent hot dogs to Coney Island
NEW YORK POST: Hot diggity dog! Nathan’s Famous is bringing back 5-cent hot dogs to Coney Island just in time for its reopening….
https://nypost.com/2021/04/21/nathans-famous-bringing-5-cent-hot-dogs-back-to-coney-island/
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